Returning to the William Brubaker collection courtesy the University of Illinois at Chicago, we find this pleasant little street scene near the intersection of West Chicago and Damen avenues in Chicago. It looks like all of the buildings in the shot are still standing today, though whether that’s from any preservation effort or just happenstance (other buildings nearby look much newer), we don’t know. Carspotters, we intentionally picked a shot with fewer cars today to make it easier to identify them all. Can you?

20 Responses to “Chicago, 1970”

Man, that 1970 Pontiac Catalina behind the VW is Edselesque in its ugliness. Hideous. There were some really ugly cars with ugly paintjobs in the 1970s!
I’ll take the gold 1969 Camaro with the black vinyl top at the left edge.

I know the area, & used to live near there. Ok, on the left we have the corner of a `67 Bonneville cvt. peaking out. To the left against the curb from front to back:
`69 Camaro
`68 Ford Country Sedan wagon
? VW Beetle
`70 Pontiac Bonneville 4dr.
`64 Pontiac Catalina 4dr.
`63 Ford Galaxie
`70 Ford Torino 2dr.
`65 Olds 98 <–best guess at the distance

Im thinking that last car is a ’68 LeSabre coupe. I take umbrage to the comment re. the 70 Bonnie. I love that design. The 67 vert on this side of the street is one of my all time faves. 91 Bear is right about the bug. Coolio all around!